At the time of report he appeared in the best of health and was quite able to attend to his daily avocations.

Doyle appends to his report the statement that among 394 cases embraced in Ashhurst's statistics, in treatment of dislocations in the cervical region, the mortality has been nearly four times greater when constitutional or general treatment has been relied on exclusively than when attempts had been made to reduce the dislocation by extension, rotation, etc.

Doyle strongly advocates attempts at reduction in such cases.
Figure 205 represents a photograph of Barney Baldwin, a switchman of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, who, after recovery from cervical dislocation, exhibited himself about the country, never appearing without his suspensory apparatus.
Acheson records a case of luxation of the cervical spine with recovery after the use of a jury-mast.

The patient was a man of fifty-five, by trade a train-conductor.

On July 10, 1889, he fell backward in front of a train, his head striking between the ties; the brake-body caught his body, pushing it forward on his head, and turned him completely over.
Three trucks passed over him.